Historical Events
1908 – 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1910 – Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 – Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing
1928 – “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris)
1966 – 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
1999 – Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, and his mother are sighted off of Florida’s coast by U.S. Coast Guard
Famous Birthdays
1808 – Thomas Cook, British founder and CEO of Thomas Cook and Son travel agency (Cook Travel Bureau), born in Derbyshire, England (d. 1892)
1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian lyric poet (Még egyzer, Uj versek), born in Ermindszent, Hungary (d. 1919)
1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1959-69), born in London (d. 1990)
1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American guitarist, songwriter, producer (E-Street Band; Asbury Jukes), and actor (The Sopranos), born in Winthrop, Massachusetts
1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
Famous Deaths
1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1943 – Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer, dies at 57
1955 – Guy Ropartz [Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz], French composer, dies at 91 (b. 1864)
1997 – Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (serial endosymbiotic theory), dies at 73